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Nigel Roulet awarded David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching

webfull — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:41:17 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Nigel Roulet, Department of Geography, for being awarded the 2024 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching!

This award recognizes an outstanding faculty member who has been supervising graduate students for more than ten years. Roulet started as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography in 1994 and began his term as Graduate Program Director of the department the following year.

Published: 19 June 2024

Connecting Students with Researchers through Soup

webfull — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:01:42 +0000

Although approaching professors to discuss research opportunities might seem daunting for undergraduate students, there’s an ingredient for success: soup!

Published: 17 March 2023

Greenland’s Indigenous population favours extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

webfull — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:27:15 +0000

A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a �㽶��Ƶ-led research team has found that a surprisingly large majority – 3 out of 4 Greenlanders – support extracting and exporting sand left by the melting ice sheet. A significant proportion want Greenland’s leadership to assess the impact of sand extraction and exports on both the environment and economy. Furthermore, when it comes to who mines the sand, the majority prefer local involvement to foreign collaboration.

Published: 18 August 2022

A new tool for understanding the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development

webfull — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:56:24 +0000

Sustainable agricultural practices require considerable investments, and smallholder famers may not realize gains for years. Without secure land tenure, they lack incentive to invest in long-term benefits. Instead, many opt to use the land as intensively as possible each year since they have no guarantee for the future. This is just one example of how land tenure security intersects with sustainable development, a relationship explored in-depth in a recent book co-edited by Brian Robinson, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at �㽶��Ƶ.

Published: 18 July 2022

Meeting the climate crisis with resilience and collaborative action

webfull — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:24:44 +0000

McGill undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.

Published: 14 July 2022

McGill tackles systemic underrepresentation

webfull — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:58:37 +0000

Improving representation is one of the key goals behind McGill’s current drive to recruit a greater number of Black faculty members. The Faculty of Science is proud to be a part of this effort, with applications now open for tenure-track positions in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Geography.

Published: 4 November 2021

Climate change artist-in-residence to curate bicentennial art show

webfull — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:51:55 +0000

Milton Riaño, McGill’s Climate Change Artist-in-Residence, will curate the Faculty of Science’s Bicentennial Science/Art Exposition, billed as a “celebration of science in all its forms”.

The art show organizers are calling on all members of the McGill community to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2021.

Published: 30 August 2021

Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of a Holistic Indicator of Health for Older Inuit: Results of a Sequential Mixed-Methods Project

webfull — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:44:26 +0000

The IHSP's Mylène Riva co-authored the following article:

Baron M, Riva M, Fletcher C, et al.

Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of a Holistic Indicator of Health for Older Inuit: Results of a Sequential Mixed-Methods Project

Social Indicators Research (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02592-5
Published January 4th, 2021

Abstract:

Published: 28 January 2021

Association Between Active Living Environments and Hospitalization for All-Causes and Cardiometabolic Disease

webfull — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:12:16 +0000

The IHSP's Mylène Riva co-authored the following article:

Mah MM, Sanmartin C, Riva M, Dasgupta K, Ross N.

Published: 28 January 2021

Student art exhibition to highlight McGill Bicentennial

webfull — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:50:47 +0000

The Faculty of Science is celebrating McGill’s 200^th anniversary with a student art exhibition on the theme of “Science!”. McGill students at all levels and all faculties are invited to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

Faculty of Science bicentennial committee member, Torsten Bernhard, says the aim of the exhibition is to celebrate science in all its forms.

Published: 12 January 2021